By Chantalé Fletcher
DANE Durell Douglas, 26, appeared before the Port of Spain Magistrates Court on Friday charged with murder.
A release from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) stated that Douglas, of Sparrow Drive, Simeon Road, Petit Valley, was arrested in April and later charged in Grenada by immigration officials and convicted for entering the state without the consent of an immigration officer.
Police stated that he was deported from Grenada on April 23 and sent into quarantine.
Reports stated that on May 11, 2022, following advice received by Director of Public Prosecutions, Roger Gaspard, SC, Douglas was charged with murder and the additional offences of possession of a firearm to endanger life and possession of ammunition to endanger life by WPC Clarke of Homicide Bureau of Investigations (HBI) Region One.
Police said that around 6.15 pm on June 13, 2021, officers responded to a report of loud explosions along Sparrow Drive, Simeon Road, Petit Valley. Upon arrival, police officers observed a slumped body on the ground with a gunshot wound.
Reports stated that further enquiries revealed 31-year-old Ricardo Ottley was at his home in his apartment when a man, who lived at an apartment downstairs, allegedly went upstairs to Ottley’s apartment following which several loud explosions were heard.
The suspect was seen leaving the apartment holding a firearm in his hand.
The investigation was supervised by Inspectors Lynch and Mongroo all of the HBI Region One with assistance from the Government of Grenada, the Royal Grenada Police Force, Grenada Customs and Immigration, Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard as well as officers attached to INTERPOL and the Port-of-Spain Division.
